looking good

Hi dave when she was painted in those days the paint was not as shiney as modern paints but was shinier than satin, I've tried vasline on a scrap piece of plastic sprayed with this paint and once rubbed off it kills the shine just enough, can't do it yet as I have to apply the decals first.

Hi Ken,

That`s nice attention to detail. WTG



Look forward to more of the same.

Regards
delboy271155
(Derek)

Hi all well back off hols with renewed energy, oh dear, there is something weird with the plastic on this kit, the paint I'm using I usually (on other models anyway) I can get off with meths, I didn't like the look of this so I thought I would remove it and start again, I started brushing it off using meths and it started melting the plastic?

I put some plastic from another kit in the meths along with a piece of sprue from this kit over night, as you can see the ItalarI sprue has dissolved completely


And the other sprue as you can see is completely untouched

Don't know what to do now, if I sand it out I will loose the rivet detail, all I can think of is to do a what if and have it as a derelict in a barn now, any suggestions.

Hi all well you probably think this is dead but no, I never really give up on anything, still not given up on the gt 500 either. got it back out of storage, first thing I noticed I didn't store it very well.



Both levers snapped off (no biggie but annoying to say the least)

As I've been informed by von trips most of the rivet detail was added after the alterations post run and there are very few pics pre run so who's to say the rivets were even there, I've tried to make it not to shiny (surprising how difficult that is, I didn't want satin just not super glossy like modern paint jobs) I'm happy with the finish at the moment.

Anyway here it is at the moment the ass is raised 10 mill added 10 mill skirts.

Great to see you back on this one Ken, very nice work.....

Regards

Alan

Nice to see a model brought out of storage and resurrected I have a few myself that need the same!

Steve

Thanks Tony, yes all is well(Pam is well on the mend, although I think it will be many months before she is back to normal and still can't lift anything much heavier than a lemonade bottle, but since she could have been a paraplegic, she's been lucky)
Here's what I've done today, the trouble with stopping a build and coming back several months later is you can't remember where you got to, after hours of scanning the instructions (well an hour or so) (another reason to follow the instruction order) I've decided now since I have no idea where I was upto I will go by the instructions now, anyway I've fixed the broken levers (not drilled them out as I think that is why they broke off in the first place)
I think the decals on the rear are very white any suggestions how to subtlety dull them down or something, they do look out of place.



Incidentally this must have been huge, I've put it on top of the 1/8 traction avant and there is little to choose length wise between them, considering the Fiat is 1/12 the actual thing must have been huge,I mean the traction was not small by today's standards and was a 4 seater.

Hi all well here is a little update (been wrapping Christmas presents today and will be for the next week or so, so not much modeling time)

Its coming along now Ken, and quite a size too

Al